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humyo.com was a cloud storage service. Files stored in humyo could be shared with other users and published on web pages. The company owned a former Bank of England bullion vault in which it housed the servers used to store its users' data. Secret servers: Where is our digital data stored? – Features, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent
The company closed its beta in March 2008 with 100,000 users humyo.com Closes Beta With Over 100 000 Users and Almost 90 Terabytes of Data and by August 2008 had 215,000.
In October 2008, the company reduced the amount of storage space offered free of charge to new users to 10GB. Questions – humyo.com (5GB for Pictures, Videos, and Music and 5GB for Other files)
On 11 June 2010 it was announced that the company was acquired by Japanese anti-virus company Trend Micro. Trend Micro Buys Humyo Online Backup | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
In September 2010 the service was re-branded to Trend Micro SafeSync. Trend Micro SafeSync offers easy online backup, secure data access from anywhere, real-time synchronisation of files across multiple internet connected devices and sharing of ... SafeSync reached End of Life on 31 January 2016 and Trend Micro announced end of service on 31 January 2017 because they “cannot feasibly adapt/update the service to meet the changing consumer needs, environment, and IT usage”.official announcement End of Life (EOL) and End of Service (EOS) of SafeSync accessed 19 February 2016 While the company accepted subscription payments to SafeSync way past the EOL/EOS, the company made available no compensation plans to consumer who prepaid long periods of subscriptions as of May 2016.
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